In January at the Foundation

ThalieLab becomes the Fondation Thalie, with a new logo and a completely redesigned website with the aim of highlighting projects outside the walls of the site’s activities in Brussels. In 2018, the Foundation took up residence in a renovated 1920s house where it hosted a cross-disciplinary programme where visual artists, authors and philosophers are invited to share their practices.

In just 8 months of public programming, more than 1300 people will have attended our events in Brussels and a total of about fifty guests will have come to exchange with the public. In April 2019, an exhibition during the Art Brussels fair, will present the work of the artist Karine Rougier, painter, invited to reconstruct her studio in the foundation’s spaces. Her works will resonate with Alessandro Roma’s ceramics and wall drawing in situ.

The launch of our new program will be inaugurated by an exceptional concert by violonist Philippe Graffin on Wednesday, January 23rd, in partnership with the asbl MGConcerts as part of the First Edition of Holocaust memorial Festival and as a tribute to the musician Bronisław Huberman.

On Monday, January 28th, the author and philosopher Gilles Collard will begin his cycle of monthly philosophical lectures entitled Artwork, life and way of being. 

We look forward to seeing you at one of these events and a big thank you for your interest and your loyalty,

Nathalie Guiot
Founder-President, artistic director

As part of the First Edition of the Holocaust Memorial Festival

Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947) was a Polish violinist of Jewish origin. His powerful, tormented play, expressive to the point of excess, as well as his lucid and incorruptible personality, made him the most esteemed Beethoven interpreter of his time.

Philippe Graffin (1964, Romilly-sur-Seine) is a French violinist. A student of Joseph Gingold and Philipp Hirschhorn, he has built a solid reputation for his interpretations of the French repertoire. His discography includes many world premieres, but also forgotten original versions of famous works such as Ravel’s Poème de Chausson and Tzigane. Professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, as well as at the Koninklijke Conservatorium Brussels, he is the founder of the “Consonances” Festival in Saint-Nazaire.

In partnership with the non-profit association MGConcerts

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First encounter of the cycle Artwork, life and way of being
A reading of the twentieth century and its heritage from art and commitment.

A whole twentieth century can be read in the tension between the exigency of the artwork and the anxiety of life and in the attempts to resorb each other, the surrealists (the resolution of life by the ‘art) to the situationists (the overcoming of art through life), two points of the century-old iceberg failed on the continent, drifting revolutions. These seminar sessions will aim through different examples to illuminate this knot of work and life.

Gilles Collard founded the journal Pylône in 2003. Since 2016, he has been professor of philosophy at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels of la Cambre, where he is also the pedagogical director of the Atelier des écritures contemporaines. 

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